Experience doesn't support anti-gun writer

Friday

Dec 27, 2013 at 12:01 AMDec 27, 2013 at 10:18 AM

I was not surprised to read the Saturday letter "Arming staff endangers students" from Toby Hoover, an anti-gun lobbyist. She took great pains, seven days after a school shooting was stopped cold in 80 seconds by an armed school employee, to claim that armed school employees don't stop school shootings.

I was not surprised to read the Saturday letter “Arming staff endangers students” from Toby Hoover, an anti-gun lobbyist. She took great pains, seven days after a school shooting was stopped cold in 80 seconds by an armed school employee, to claim that armed school employees don't stop school shootings.

It is the nature of those blinded by emotion and fear to ignore obvious data disproving the way they feel. Hoover, her paymaster New York nanny Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other public figures, such as Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman, provide examples of this anti-intellectualism.

In part, it is hard to blame them. Their greatest flaw, beyond accepting paychecks to assault civil liberties, is that they believe violent criminals think the same way they, the gun-grabbers, “ feel.”

This past year has seen great efforts nationwide to assault numerous American liberties in the name of specious public goals. Fortunately, in most Second Amendment cases, the attack has been turned back.

Here in Ohio, through legislation such as Rep. Terry Johnson's House Bill 203, which would loosen Ohio's concealed-carry licensing law, liberty-supporting politicians have proved stronger than their New York-funded adversaries.

JOHN F. LITLE III

West Jefferson

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